Welcome back to the Cyclotives Podcast, everybody I'm Kayle Fritz and we've got almost everybody,

pretty much everybody here today. Hello Abby. Hi. Hello James. Hello. Hello. Ronin. Hi, how you doing Dane?

You caught me off guard there. You just said hello to everybody and then you ask me how I'm doing it. I'm not ready. I don't know. I wasn't ready for that. I'm doing okay, Kelly. Thanks for asking.

Shoddy? Hello?

Sava? Sava Bia. Well, let's get right into it today. We've got a lot to discuss. We've got two overlapping world tour stage races used in preparation for the Tour de France.

You guys know how much I love that fact.

We're going to talk a little bit about

both the end of the Dauphine and the Tour de Suisse.

And we're going to talk about Rigaburt to Iran as related to a little classic out of nowhere time trial.

Talk about Pogachar, who is, well, obviously, the number one favorite for the Tour de France and where he stands right now.

We're going to mention Tulsa Tough, which happened over the weekend the big crit races in Tulsa

Oklahoma because we had a crew on the ground in Tulsa we're gonna have a small debate

about whether Mark Cavendish should go to the Tour de France.

If you were Patrick Leffever, would you bring Mark Cavendish to the Tour de France?

That's the question we're going to try to answer here.

And then end this week's nerd nugget

we have some illegal handlebars well actually I think the handlebars are okay

it's how you ride on them kind of.

Anyway, we'll get into that.

Tech guys know what they're talking about.

I'm just making stuff up.

And a brief PSA public service announcement on tubeless valves because James doesn't want your

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